Final Fantasy Final Fantasy
Susan Faludi's Terror Dream made a provocative splash, but therapy is no substitute for understanding reality.
Mar 17, 2008 / Books & the Arts / David Waldstreicher
Tracing Slavery’s Past Tracing Slavery’s Past
On the bicentennial of the abolition of the slave trade, a documentarian tries to come to grips with her family's history in the trade.
Mar 14, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Te-Ping Chen
The Faith of Roosevelt The Faith of Roosevelt
"To achieve 'social values more noble than mere monetary profit,' to 'keep the money changers permanently out of the temple of our civilization'...would be to transform America."
Mar 4, 2008 / The Editors
Roosevelt to Appoint First-Ever Female Cabinet Member Roosevelt to Appoint First-Ever Female Cabinet Member
"Here is a lost cause no longer lost, but come to triumphant success, and if the pioneers of that cause are looking down upon this scene, there will be rejoicing in heaven on the f...
Mar 4, 2008 / Oswald Garrison Villard
The Two Nuernbergs The Two Nuernbergs
Twenty very little men are defendants in a very big trial.
Feb 26, 2008 / Feature / Peter de Mendelssohn
The Old Revolutionaries of Vietnam The Old Revolutionaries of Vietnam
Thirty-two years after the war, Communist Vietnam is a bustling market economy awash in foreign capital and consumer goods. So was the war necessary?
Feb 21, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Tom Hayden
The History of Hope The History of Hope
Voters drawn to Barack Obama are often criticized as naive. But appeals to our collective hope for a more decent society are core to the American experience.
Feb 20, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Peter Dreier
Revolutionary States Revolutionary States
Two new books take a closer look at the "Soviet monster" in an age of lazy, anti-Communist rhetoric.
Feb 14, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Ronald Grigor Suny
The Ice Forge The Ice Forge
The generation that came of age in Stalin's Russia was torn between perpetual fear and profound emotional investment in the Soviet ideal.
Feb 13, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Jochen Hellbeck
An Unconventional Convention An Unconventional Convention
On Saturday, June 27, 1924, "men and women suddenly rose up after days of utterly degraded and demoralizing vaudeville performances to declaim with passion about two big subjects....
Feb 12, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Oswald Garrison Villard